Anastasios Christodoulou

Christodoulou was born in Cyprus in 1932, the oldest of three sons of Yianni Christodoulos, a cobbler, and his wife, Maria, née Haji.

[2] When Edward Heath's Conservative Party came to power in 1970 Margaret Thatcher was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science.

She proved to be deeply sceptical about the academic standards of the OU, believing that students could get degrees just by ticking boxes, because some courses included multiple-choice questions.

Christodoulou and Walter Perry travelled back to London with Thatcher after she had visited the Open University, and managed to persuade her that it was genuine and useful.

[5] He increased the membership of the association, and raised £2 million in a 75th anniversary appeal with the Canadian academic Thomas Symons.

In 1995 he received the National University of Lesotho's fiftieth anniversary award for distinguished service to African education.

Shortly before his death Christodoulou returned to the village where he had been born but was unhappy to discover that it had been occupied by Turkish troops.